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craigkerstiens
32,048karma·2,512submissions·September 20, 2008
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I work at Snowflake building best in class Postgres via Crunchy Data, building Snowflake Postgres - a multi-cloud Postgres managed service. Previously I ran product at Azure Postgres, product at Citus data, and a number of product areas at Heroku.
You can find more thoughts from me: https://www.craigkerstiens.com
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Yeah, I beat the blog post out when I saw the repo go live. This is probably the better post, though wasn't sure if either would take.
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We looked at adding support for this on Crunchy Bridge, and at the time opt'ed for pg_repack as it seemed bit like too much complexity and magic going on with automatically running and the backgr…
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The communication in and out is a bit of extra work at the moment. We've got some thoughts on improving this in the future, but it's a bit unclear on timeline and roadmap. We're excited…
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Late to this, hadn't noticed until now. We have the license included and linked from from inside the VM as it starts up.
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Give us a look at Crunchy Data, suspect we'll check most of the boxes on the Postgres side.
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You were an amazing user, customer, and still to this day friend. It still blew my mind when you first shared you were writing a book on Heroku.
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We're definitely thinking about a deeper integration here. As it stands you can absolutely connect a Crunchy Bridge instance to fly and we have folks that do just that, and it works for them.
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There are some that have emulated it, but the team that was there and created Heroku cared deeply about developer experience. When you just "clone" that you miss pieces, one PM friend that I…
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> If you want a Heroku trial, please contact your account executive or reach us here. Maybe I'm over skeptical here, but I don't see this being an easy thing for a bootcamp study to acqui…
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Heroku's got effectively the same and with review apps it's a great experience. Heroku was early in the integration to GitHub. It was surprising to see how many apps were "broken" …
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This is a sad day. Pricing changes are always hard, and having been through some of the earlier pricing changes at Heroku you can't make everyone happy. But, so many developers deployed their fir…
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Craig here from Crunchy. RDS is definitely in the spectrum of more managed, but I'd still say it's more of a spectrum. For instance to my knowledge AWS doesn't fully monitor your indivi…
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Craig here from Crunchy, we do run some small pieces on Heroku, but during the DNS outage saw no interruption of databases and they all seemed to be available and up. Please do feel free to drop us a …